It is an interesting thought that while we all appear to possess some degree of free will and self-determination, and beyond the intractable differences of a diversity of philosopical (and, let’s face it – political) thought on the matter, much of our mental lives are shaped and patterned by the contexts that we find ourselves […]
Tag: truth
Falsity carries less information, less entropy and consequently travels more efficiently through a transmission medium.
Self-Knowledge of Nature
We are sentient nature.
The entropy of difference provides discrete patterns of information and thought with the energy, complexity and momentum they require to self-propagate.
The Test of Good Government
The true measure of value and of political, organisational and ideological sincerity is the extent of persistent selfless sacrifice and unselfish compassion.
What is Beauty?
True beauty just is, and exists before language, thought and technology.
Desire and Fear
We are bound by fear to our Objects and fantasies of Other and Self as much as by desire and there is a complex logical undercurrent and rationale to the ways that we (enigmatically) encrypt aversion into attraction and revulsion or death into fertility and life.
Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.
Visualising Reality
There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.
Into Emptiness
Falling into emptiness…
No One Owns Truth
There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.
A World at War with Itself
At the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, it is a good time to reflect upon where we are all going as a civilisation and what we might plausibly achieve to inhibit, interdict or halt the possibility of any similar global catastrophes from ever occurring again.